单词 | unpillowed |
释义 | unpillowedadj. Without a pillow. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [adjective] > serving as pillow > without pillow unpillowed1637 1637 J. Milton Comus 13 Perhaps..'Gainst the rugged barke of some broad Elme [she] Leans her unpillow'd head. 1796 M. Mitchell Poems 21 There, unpillow'd, will thou lie. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy ii. 177 In carved dark-oaken chair, unpillowed, sleeps..a small man. 1925 Motor Boating Nov. 110/2 Sleeping with an inch of clearance between my unpillowed ear and the propeller of a lifeboat. 2011 J. McElroy Night Soul & Other Stories 253 Cupped in the middle of the night in my one unpillowed ear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1637 |
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